30 Collaborative Books for Your Class To Make and Share! (Grades K-2)

By Scholastic Inc.

Book Overview

Easy Patterns and How-To's for Creating a Year's Worth of Thematic Rhyming BooksBuild early reading and writing skills with these irresistible class-made books! Reproducible patterns with complete... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590065424
• ISBN13: 9780590065429
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Good book for Teachers

This cute book has 15 titles for collaborative books, and every title has two options for completing the book. Each page has a poem at the top, and one option is usually simpler than the other. For example: Pumpkin theme book Option 1: "I picked an orange pumpkin right off of the vine. It's as big as a _______, and it's mine, all mine!" Pumpkin theme book Option 2: "I cut out a paper pumpkin, then added on a face. I used ___circles, ___triangles, and ___squares. In all, I used ___shapes!". Instructions are given for decorating the front and back covers. Other instructions for each book are a pre-writing warm up, introducing the selection, writing together, best book connection, and a follow up activity. Some of the titles I would have thought of myself, such as pumpkin and school bus. Others are more unusual, including "sparkle castle" and "tick tock clock". I teach preschool, and will adapt these ideas for my class. It would be ideal for grades 1-2.

Great Language Arts activity

I have used this book many times! It offers great pictures and templates. The children love to have teachers read their work and connect it with the theme you may be working on....I give it an A+ Laura Black

Great Ideas

This book gives a teacher many great ideas to use in writing books with children. Many of the patterns are very easy to reproduce and are helpful.